{"id":2528,"date":"2005-07-22T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2018-02-12T16:01:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:01:44","slug":"more-fun-with-juxtaposition-courtesy-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/22\/more-fun-with-juxtaposition-courtesy-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"More Fun With Juxtaposition, Courtesy AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews1.iwon.com\/\/article\/20050722\/D8BGKLO00.html?PG=home&#038;SEC=news\" target=\"_new\">illustrates<\/a> the fun one can have with juxtaposition, especially when it&#8217;s a <i>non sequitur<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to volatile Lebanon on Friday to encourage a new democratic government outside Syrian control and better relations between the two Mideast countries.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after Rice left the city, witnesses said an explosion rocked a busy street of restaurants and bars in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to see the day when there are good neighborly relations between Syria and Lebanon based on mutual respect and equality,&#8221; Rice said at a joint news conference with Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Foud Saniora earlier in the day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, somewhere in the city where this asinine story was written, someone was undoubtedly murdered.  Please, gentle reader, infer what you will that I included the two things in the same sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP illustrates the fun one can have with juxtaposition, especially when it&#8217;s a non sequitur: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to volatile Lebanon on Friday to encourage a new democratic government outside Syrian control and better relations between the two Mideast countries. Hours after Rice left the city, witnesses said an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19506,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/19506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}